Clair Wills, Improprieties: Politics and Sexuality In Northern Irish Poetry (Oxford:OUP 1993).

The Bibliographical listings given here are additional to those held under individual authors on the Ricorso website.
  • Adams, Gerry, The Politics of Irish Freedom (Brandon 1986)
  • Adamson, Ian, The Identity of Ulster: The Land, the Language and the People (Belf:Adamson 1982)
  • Allen, Michael, ‘Barbaric Yawp, Gibbous Voice’, review of Medbh McGuckian, Venus and the Rain, in Honest Ulsterman 77 (1984), pp.56-64.
  • Allen, Michael, ‘Realism Meets Phantasmagoria’, review of Paul Muldoon, Meeting the British, in Honest Ulsterman 84 (1987), pp.60-65
  • Anderson, Benedict, Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism (London: Verso 1983)
  • Andrews, John, A Paper Landscape: The Ordnance Survey in Nineteenth Century Ireland (OUP 1975)
  • Banville John, ‘Slouching Towards Bethlehem’, review of Derek Mahon, Selected Poems, and Paul Muldoon, Madoc – A Mystery, in NY Review of Books [30 May 1991], pp.37-39.
  • Jenny Beale, Women in Ireland: Voices of Change (Macmillan 1986)
  • Bell, Desmond, ‘Cultural Studies in Ireland and the Postmodernist Debate’, Irish Journal of Sociology, 1 (1991), pp.83-95.
  • Boland, Eavan, ‘The Woman Poet: Her Dilemma’, in American Poetry Review, 16:1 (Jan-Feb 1987), pp.17-20
  • Boland, Eavan, ‘The Woman Poet in a National Tradition’, Studies 76 (Summer 1987), pp.148-58
  • Boyce, D. George, Nationalism in Ireland (Baltimore:John Hopkins UP 1982)
  • Boylan. thomas A and Timothy P Foley, Policitical Economy and Colonial Ireland: The Propagation of the Ideological Fucntions of Economic Discourse in the Nineteenth Century (London: Routledge 1992)
  • Braidwood, John, The Ulster Dialect Lexicon (Belf:QUB 1969)
  • Brown, Terence, Northern Voices: Poets from Ulster (Dub:Gill&Macmillan 1975)
  • Buckland, Patrick, A History of Northern Ireland (Dub:Gill & Macmillan 1981)
  • Cahill, Eileen, ‘A Silent Voice: Seamus Heaney and Ulster Politics’, in Critical Quarterly, 29. 3 (Autumn 1987), pp.55-59
  • Cairns, David, and Shaun Richards, Writing Ireland: Colonialism, Nationalism and Culture (Manchester University Press; New York:St Martin’s Press, 1988)
  • Carey, John, review of Paul Mudoon, Quoof, in Critic’s Forum [BBC Radio 4] (1 Oct 1983)
  • Carey, John, ‘The Stain of Words’, review of Seamus Heaney, The Haw Lantern’, and Paul Muldoon, Meeting the British, in Sunday Times (21 June 1987), p.56
  • Carson, Ciaran, ‘Escaped from the Massacre’, review of Seamus Heaney, North, in Honest Ulsterman, 50 (1975), pp.184-85
  • Carson, Ciaran, ‘Sweeney Astray: Escaping from Limbo’, in Tony Curtis, ed., The Art of Seamus Heaney (Bridgend:Poetry Wales 1985)
  • Clear, Catriona, Nuns in Nineteenth Century Ireland (Dub:Gill & Macmillan 1987)
  • Corcoran, Neil, ‘The Shy Trickster’, review of Paul Muldoon, in Times Lit. Supplement (28 Oct. 1983), p.1180
  • Corcoran, Neil, ‘Flaneur along the Shopfronts’, review of Paul Muldoon, Meeting the British, in Poetry Review, 77:3 (Autumn 1987), pp.44-49
  • Corkery, Daniel, The Hidden Ireland: A Study of Gaelic Munster in the Eighteenth Century (Dub:MH Gill 1924; rep. Gill & Macmillan 1979)
  • Coulter, Carol, Ireland: Between the First and the Third Worlds (Dub:Attic Preess 1990)
  • Crozier, Maurna, ed., Cultural Traditions in Northern Ireland (Belf:QUB 1991)
  • Cullingford, Elizabeth, ‘Thinking of Her as Ireland’, paper to Yeats Annual Summer School, Sligo (Aug. 1988)
  • Curtin, Chris, Mary Kely, and Liam O’Dowd, eds., Culture and Ideology in Ireland (Galway UP 1984)
  • Curtin, Chris, Pauline Jackson, and Barbara O’Connor, eds., Gender in Irish Society (Galway UP 1987)
  • Curtis, L Perry, Jr., Anglo-Saxons and Celts: A Study of Anti-Irish Prejudice in Victorian England [Conference on British Studies] (Conn:Bridgeport UP 1968).
  • Curtis, L. P., Anglo-Saxon and Celts: A Study of Anti-Irish Prejudice in Victorian England (Bridgeport, Connecticut: Conference on British Studies, 1968).
  • Deane, Seamus, ‘Irish Poetry and Irish Nationalism’, in Douglas Dunne, ed., Two Decades of Irish Writing (Cheadle Hulme: Carcanet 1975), pp.4-22
  • Deane, Seamus, ‘Remembering the Future’, in Crane Bag, 8:1 (1984), pp.81-92
  • Deane, Seamus, ‘Civilians and Barbarians’, in Ireland’s Field Day [FDA pamphl.] foreword Denis Donoghue (Field Day/Hutchinson 1985), pp.33-42 [ALSO LISTED: SHORT HISTORY; CELTIC REVIVALS]
  • Denvir, Gearoid, ‘Continuing the Link: An Aspect of Contemporary Irish Poetry’, in Irish Review 3 (1988), pp.40-54
  • Docherty, Thomas, ‘Initiations, Tempers, Seductions: Postmodern McGuckian’, in Neil Corcoran, ed, The Chosen Ground: Essays on the Contemporary Poetry of Modern Ireland (Bridgend:Seren Books 1992), pp.191-210
  • Dooley, Tim, ‘Soft Cushionings’, review of Medhh McGuckian, The Flower Master, in TLS (29 Oct. 1982), p.1200.
  • Dunn, Douglas, ‘Manoeuvres’, review of Paul Muldoon, ed., Faber Book of Contemporary Verse, in Irish Review, 1 (1986), pp.84-90
  • Dunne, Tom, ‘New Histories: Beyond Revisionism’, in Irish Review, 12 (1992), 1-12pp.
  • Eagleton, Terry, ‘Recent Poetry’, review of Seamus Heaney, Field Work, in Stand, 231 (1980), pp.76-79
  • Eagleton, Terry, ‘Capitalism, Modernism, and Postmodernism’, in New Left Review 152 (Jul-Aug 1985), pp.60-73
  • Eagleton, Terry, ‘New Poetry’, review of John Montague, The Dead Kingdom, in Stand 26:2 (1985), p.67
  • Eagleton, Terry, ‘The Poetry of Radical Republicanism’, rev. of Tom Paulin, ed., The Faber Book of Political Verse, in New Left Review 158 (1986), pp.123-27
  • Elliott, Marianne, Partners in Revolution: The United Irishmen and France (New Haven:Yale UP 1982)
  • Farrell, M., Northern Ireland: The Orange State (London: Pluto Press, 1980)
  • Foster, Roy, ‘We Are All Revisionists Now’, in Irish Review, 1 (1986), 1-5
  • Modern Ireland (Penguin 1988)
  • Frazier, Adrian, ‘Juniper, Otherwise Known: Poems by Paulin and Muldoon’, review of Liberty Tree and Quoof, in Eire-Ireland: Journal of Irish Studies 19:1 (Spring 1984), pp.123-44
  • Garvin, Tom, ‘The Return to History: Collective Myths and Modern Nationalisms’, in Irish Review 9 (1990), 16-30pp.
  • Gibbons, Luke, ‘Montage, Modernism, and the City’, in Irish Review, 10 (1991), 1-6pp.
  • Gibbons, Luke, ‘Race Against Time: Racial Discourse and Irish History’, Oxford Literary Review, 12 (1991), pp.95-113
  • Gitzen, Julian, ‘Northern Ireland: The Post-Heaney Generation’, Poesis, 6:2 (1985), pp.47-64
  • Goodby, John, ‘”Armageddon, Armagh-geddon”: Language and Crisis in the Poetry of Paul Muldoon’, in Birgit Bramstack and Martin Croghan, eds., Anglo-Irish and Irish Literature: Aspects of Language and Culture, II (Uppsala UP 1988), 229-36
  • Goodby, John, ‘Elephantiasis and Essentialism’, in Irish Review, 10 (1991), pp.132-37
  • Grennan, Eamon, ‘A Whimful, Myopic Book’, review of Paul Muldoon, ed. Faber Book of Contemporary Verse, in Honest Ulsterman, 82 (Winter 1986), pp.58-66
  • Hardy, Barbara, ‘Meeting the Myth: Station Island’, in Tony Curtis, ed., The Art of Seamus Heaney (Brigend:Poetry Wales 1985), 151-63pp.
  • Haughton, Hugh, ‘An Eye on the Everyday’, review of Faber Poetry Introduction 5 [with Medbh McGuckian], in TLS (13 aug. 1982), pp.876
  • Heaney, Seamus, ‘Unhappy and at Home’, interview with Seamus Deane, in Crane Bag 1:1 (1977), pp.66-72
  • Heaney, Seamus, ‘The Interesting Case of John Alphonsus Mulrennan’, in Planet 41 (1978), pp.34-37
  • Heaney, Seamus, ‘An Open Letter’, in Ireland’s Field Day (Hutchinson 1985), pp.21-30
  • Heaney, Seamus, Place and Displacement: Recent Poetry of Northern Ireland (Crasmere:Trustee of Dove Cottage 1985)
  • Hederman, Patrick, ‘Seamus Heaney: The Reluctant Poet’, in Crane Bag, 3:2 (1979), pp.61-70
  • Hederman, Patrick, ‘Poetry and the Fifth Province, in Crane Bag, 9:1 (1985), pp.110-119
  • Henigan, Robert H, ‘Contemporary Women Poets in Northern Ireland’, in Concerning Poetry, 18:1-2 (1985), pp.103-115
  • Hofman, Robert H., ‘The Recent Generation at Their Song’, review of Paul Muldoon, The Wishbone, in TLS (30 May 1986), pp585-86
  • Hollinghurst, Alan, ‘Telling Tales’, review of Paul Muldoon, Why Brownlee Left, in Encounter, 56 (1981), pp.80-85
  • Hughes, Eamon, ed., Culture and Politics in Northern Ireland, 1690-1990 (Open University Press 1991)
  • Inglis, Tom, Moral Monopoly: The Catholic Church in Modern Irish Society (Dub:Gill & Macmillan 1987)
  • Jenkins, Alan, ‘Hearts in the Right Place’, review of Medbh McGuckian, On Ballycastle Beach, in Observer (10 July 1988), p.33
  • Johnston, Dillon, Irish Poetry After Joyce (Notre Dame University Press; Dub:The Dolmen Press, 1985).
  • Kearney, Richard, ‘Myth and Motherland’, Ireland’s Field Day (London: Hutchinson 1985), pp.61-80
  • Kearney, Richard, ed., The Irish Mind: Exploring Intellectual Traditions (Dub:Wolfhoud 1985)
  • Kearney, Richard, Transitions, Narratives in Modern Irish Culture (:Wolfhound 1988)
  • Kearney, Richard, ed., Across the Frontiers: Irish in the 1900s (Dub:Wolfhound 1990)
  • Kerrigan, John, ‘The New Narrative’, review of Paul Muldoon, Quoof, in London Review of Books (16-29 Feb. 1984), pp.22-3
  • Kinsella, Thomas, ed., The New Oxford Book of Irish Verse (OUP 1986)
  • Lloyd, David, ‘Pap for the Dispossessed”: Seamus Heaney and the Poetics of Identity’, Boundary 2 (Winter/Spring 1985), pp.319-42
  • Lloyd, David, Nationalism and Minor Literature: James Clarence Mangan and the Emergence of Irish Cultural Nationalism (Berkeley:Cal. UP 1987).
  • Longley, Edna, ‘Stars and Horses, Pigs and Trees’, in Crane Bag, 3:2 (1979), pp.54-60
  • Longley, Edna, ‘”Inner Emigré” or “Arful Voyeur”?: Seamus Heaney’s North’, in Tony Curtis, ed., The Art of Seamus Heaney (Bridgend:Poetry Wales 1982)
  • Longley, Edna, ‘Poetry and Politics in Northern Ireland’, in Crane Bag 9:1 (1985), pp.26-37
  • Longley, Edna, ‘A Reply [to Patrick Mark Hederman]’, Crane Bag 9:1 (1985), p.120-21
  • Longley, Edna, Poetry in the Wars (Newcastle upon Tyne:Bloodaxe Bks 1986)
  • Longley, Edna, ed., Culture in Ireland: Division or Diversity?’ (Belf:QUB 1991)
  • Lyons, FSL, Ireland Since the Famine (1971; Fontana 1973)
  • Lyons, FSL, Culture and Anarchy in Ireland, 1890-1939 (OUP 1982)
  • MacCana, Prionsias, ‘Women in Irish Mythology’, in Crane Bag 4:2 (1908), pp.7-11
  • McCurry, Jacqueline, ‘”S’crap”: Colonialism Indicted in the Poetry of Paul Muldoon’, in Eire-Ireland 27:3 (1992), pp.92-109
  • McCurtain, Margaret, ‘Towards an Appraisal of the Religious Image of Women’, in Crane Bag 4:1 (1980), pp.26-30
  • McCurtain, Margaret, and Donncha O Corrain, eds., Women in Irish Society: The Historical Dimension (Dub:Arlen House 1978)
  • MacDiarmid, Lucy, ‘From Signifump to Kierkegaard’, review of Paul Muldoon, ’, in New York Times (28 July 1991), p.14
  • MacDonagh, O., States of Mind: A Study of Anglo-Irish Conflict 1780-1980 (London: Allen and Unwin 1983).
  • McGuckian, Medbh [WORKS AS IN ARCHIVES]
  • McGuckian, Medbh, Personal Interviews: 10 Jan & 20 Nov. 1986, 19 June 1988.
  • Mackinnon, Lachlan, ‘A Dream Diffused in Words’, review of Paul Muldoon, Madoc – a Mystery, in TLS (12-18 Oct 1990, p.1105
  • Mahon, Derek, Poetry in Northern Ireland, Twentieth Century Studies, 4 (1970), pp.89-93
  • Mahon, Evelyn, ‘Women’s Rights and Catholicism in Ireland’, New Left Review 166 (1987), pp.53-77
  • Miller, Kerby A., Emigrants and Exiles: Ireland and the Irish Exodus to North America (OUP 1985)
  • Mooney, Martin, ‘Body Logic: Some Notes on the Poetry of Medbh McGuckian’, Gown Literary Supplement (1988), pp.16-18
  • Morrison, Blake, ‘Tropical Storms’, review of Medbh McGuckian, Venus and the Rain, in London Review of Books (6-19 Sept. 1984), pp.22-23
  • Muldoon, Paul [WORKS AS IN ARCHIVES]
  • Paul Muldoon, ‘A conversation with Paul Muldoon’, in John Haffenden, ed., Poets in Conversation with John Haffenden, (London: Faber 1981), pp.130-40
  • Muldoon, Paul, ‘A Conversation with Michael Donaghy’, in Chicago Review 35, 1 (1985), pp.76-85
  • Muldoon, Paul, ‘An Interview with Paul Muldoon’, with Clair Wills, Nick Jenkins, and John Lancaster, in Oxford Poetry, 3.1 (Winter 1986-87), pp.14-20
  • Muldoon, Paul, ‘Way Down Upon the Old Susquehanna’, Interview with Blake Morrison, Independent on Sunday (28 Oct. 1900), p.37
  • Muldoon, Paul, ‘Lunch with Paul Muldoon’, Interview with Kevin Smith, in Rhinosceros, 4 (1991), pp.75-91
  • Ní Chuileanain, Eiléan, ed. Irish Women, Image and Achievement: Women in Irish Culture from the Earliest Times (Dub:Arlen House 1985)
  • O Maolcraibhe, Padraig, The Role of Language in Ireland’s Cultural Revival (Belf:Sinn Féin 1984)
  • O’Brien, Conor Cruise, ‘An Unhealthy Intersection’, New Review, 2, 16 (1975), pp.3-8.
  • O’Brien, Conor Cruise, ‘A Tale of Two Nations’, New York Review of Books (19 July 1990), pp.33-36
  • O’Brien, Sean, ‘Unique Particulars’, review of Paul Muldoon, Selected Poems, in Honest Ulsterman, 83 (Summer 1987), pp.96-97
  • O’Donoghue, Bernard, review of Paul Muldoon, Quoof, in Poetry Review, 73:4 (jan 1984), pp.53-54
  • O’Donoghue, Bernard, ‘Irish Plain-style’, review of Thomas Kinsella, ed., New Oxford Book of Irish Verse, in Poetry Review, and Paul Muldoon, ed., Faber Book of Contemporary Verse, in Poetry Review, 76:3 (Oct. 1986), pp.51-53
  • O’Donoghue, Bernard, ‘Voice-Shifts’, review of Paul Muldoon, Selected Poems, in Irish Review, 2 (1987), pp.121-25
  • O’Donoghue, Bernard, ‘Involved Imaginings: Tom Paulin’, in Neil Corcoran, ed., The Chosen Ground: Essays on the Contemporary Poetry of Modern Ireland (Bridgend:Seren Books 1992), pp.171-88
  • ODowd, Liam, ‘Neglecting the Material Dimension: Irish Intellectuals and the Problem of Identity’, in Irish Review, 3 (1988), pp.8-17
  • O’Neill, Michael, ‘Bidding for Power’, review of Medbh McGuckian, Venus and the Rain, in TLS (30 Nov. 1984), p.1393
  • O’Rourke, Brian, ‘The Long Walk of a Queen: The Representation of Ireland as a Woman in the Irish Literary Tradition’, in Chiba Review, 7 (1985), pp.1-49
  • Outram, Dorinda, ‘Holding the Future at Bay: The French Revolutin and Modern Ireland’, in Irish Review, 6 (1989), pp.1-6
  • Paulin, Tom [WORKS AS IN ARCHIVES]
  • Paulin, Tom, ‘Clare in Babylon’, review of Mark Storey ed., Letters of John Clare, in TLS (20 June 1986), pp.675-6
  • Paulin, Tom, ‘Q & A with Tom Paulin’, interview with Eamonn Hughes, Irish Literary Supplement (1988), pp.31-32
  • Paulin, Tom, Interview with John Haffenden, in Viewpoints: Poets in Conversation with John Haffenden (London: Faber & Faber 1981), pp.157-73.
  • Ramsey, Patrick, ‘Quality and Quantity’, review of Medbh McGuckian, Irish Review, 5 (Autumn 1988), pp.122-26
  • Roe, Nick, ‘Cock and Bull Stories?’, review of Paul Muldoon, Quoof, in North Magazine, 2 (1984), pp.44-45
  • Scammell, William, ‘Mid-air Street?, review of Paul Muldoon, Meeting the British, in Irish Review, 3 (1988), pp.144-46
  • Stevenson, Anne, ‘With Eyes Open and Closed’, revew of Medbh McGuckian, Portrait of Joanna, in TLS (21 Aug. 1981), p.952
  • Trotter, David, The Making of the Reader: Language and Subjectivity in Modern American, English, and Irish Poetry (Basingstoke:Macmillan)
  • Ward, Margaret, and Marie-Therese McGivern, ‘Images of Women in Northern Ireland’, Crane Bag 4:1 (1980), pp.66-72
  • Watson, George, ‘The Narrow Ground: Northern Poets and the Northern Crisis, in Masaru Sekine, ed., Irish Writers and Socierty at Large (Colin Smythe 1985).
  • Williams, Madoc: The Making of a Mystery (London: Eyre Methuen 1979)
  • Williams, Patrick, ‘Spare That Tree!’, review of Medbh McGuckian, On Ballycastle Beach, in Honest Ulsterman, 86 (1989), pp.49-52
  • Wills, Clair, Country Feelings’, review of Medbh McGuckian, On Ballycastle Beach, in TLS (19-25 Aug 1988), p.915
  • Wills, Clair, ‘The Perfect Mother: Authority in the Poetry of Medbh McGuckian’, in Text and Context, 3 (1988), pp.91-111
  • Wills, Clair, ‘Contemporary Privatisation of Myth’, in Harriet Jumper, ed., Diverse Voices: Essays on Twentieth-Century Women Writers in English (Hemel Hempstead: Harvester Wheatsheaf 1991), pp.248-72)
  • Wills, Clair, ‘The Lie of the Land: Language, Imperialism, and Trade in Paul Muldoon’s Meeting the British’, in Neil Corcoran, ed, The Chosen Ground: Essays on the Contemporary Poetry of Modern Ireland (Bridgend:Seren Books 1992), pp.123-49
  • Wills, Clair, ‘Making Waves: review of Medbh McGuckian, Marconi’s Cottage, in TLS (10 July 1922), p.23
  • Wilson, William A., ‘Paul Muldoon and the Poetics of Sexual Difference’, Contemporary Literature, 28:3 (1987), pp.317-31.
  • Young, Robert, White Mythologies: History, Writing and the West (London: Routledge 1990).

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